Height [cm]: 25 / Associated People: Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet

1. Lear Awakened by Cordelia

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: between 1774 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 19 5/16 inches (30.7 x 49 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

2. Sketch of Goths Entering Rome, from Shakespeare's Play, Titus Andronicus

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 5/8 inches (24.8 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Allegorical Scene

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Image: 2 1/16 × 9 3/4 inches (5.2 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Sketch of a Battle Sceene, from Shakespeare's Play, Titus Andronicus

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 10 13/16 inches (24.8 × 27.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Scene from Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 9 9/16 inches (16.7 × 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Study of Nude Figures in a Wooded Area

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, white gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 3/16 inches (19.1 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Study for a Relief with Romanesque Figures

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 1 1/4 × 8 3/8 inches (3.2 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Studies From a French MSS Bible Registry

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 15 1/16 inches (24.9 × 38.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Scene from Timon of Athens

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/16 × 10 15/16 inches (20.5 × 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Wooded Scene with a Couple Laying under a Tree, by a Stream

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, pen and red ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 6 1/16 inches (9.5 × 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, with Satyrs, sleeping Cupid and a Pegasus in a Wooded Landscape

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and red ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 × 6 5/8 inches (10.6 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Five Vignettes of Scenes from Antiquity

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 1/4 inches (21 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Battle Scene

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 8 15/16 inches (12.7 × 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. His Majesty George IVth

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, line engraving and etching on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 4 5/16 x 3 1/2in. (10.9 x 8.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Interior of York Minster from the Nave Shewing the Screen of the Choir in its Present Situation

Creator:: Print made by Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 8 1/2 × 7 inches (21.6 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Untitled: The Persian and the Slave Merchants

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 1/8 x 3 3/8in. (10.5 x 8.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Untitled: Skirmish for a Lady

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/2 x 2 3/4in. (8.9 x 7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Twelfth Night

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 x 3in. (10.2 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Taming of the Shrew

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 x 3in. (10.2 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Twelfth Night

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 x 3in. (10.2 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Merry Wives of Windsor

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 x 3in. (10.2 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Merry Wives of Windsor

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 x 3in. (10.2 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Tempest

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 x 3in. (10.2 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Taming of the Shrew

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 x 3in. (10.2 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Tempest

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 x 3in. (10.2 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Tempest

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 7 1/2 inches (27.9 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Merry Wives of Windsor

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 x 3in. (10.2 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Cesar Passing the Rubicon

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 7 3/4 x 5in. (19.7 x 12.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. William Shakespeare

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (24.8 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. William Shakespeare

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Cousins, 1801–1887
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/4 x 17 1/8 inches (56.5 x 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Tempest

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 x 3in. (10.2 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Opera Reminiscences: Desdemona and Othello

Creator:: Print made by William Heath, 1795–1840
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 1/8 inches (25.2 × 33.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Orlando and the Wrestler - "As You Like It"

Creator:: Charles W. Sharpe, active 1858–1883
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 11 3/4in. (25.4 x 29.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Mr. Garrick in the Character of King Lear - "King Lear", Act III, Scene V

Creator:: Charles Spooner, c.1720–1767
Date:: 1761
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy

Creator:: Charles Normand, 1765–1840
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/2 x 4in. (8.9 x 10.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. The Infant Shakspeare attended by Nature and the Passions

Creator:: Charles Normand, 1765–1840
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/2 x 4in. (8.9 x 10.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Pistol eating Fluellen's Leak - "Henry V"

Creator:: Print made by Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: between 1811 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches (26 x 39 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. Weird Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon (Thurlow, Pitt, and Dundas)

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 3/4 inches (24.9 × 35 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Taming of the Shrew. Katharine and Petruchio - The Modern Quixotte, or, What You Will

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 x 15 3/4 inches (22.9 x 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Shakespeare's Prophecy, the Last Act by One in the Tempest, or the Jack Daws in Borrowed Feathers (from: Caricature, vol. 3)

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 17in. (25.4 x 43.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Ferdinand Riding the Waves

Creator:: Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gray wash and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 1/4 inches (24.8 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Shylock turn'd MacBeth...

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 7in. (24.8 x 17.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

43. Shakspeare

Creator:: Edward Scriven, 1775–1841
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 1/8 x 4in. (13 x 10.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

44. Shakspeare from the First Folio Edition

Creator:: John Swaine, 1775–1860
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 x 5 7/8in. (24.6 x 14.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

45. Shakspeare

Creator:: Thomas Hollis, 1818–1843
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 4 1/8 x 3 9/16in. (10.5 x 9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

46. William Shakespeare

Creator:: William Holl II, 1807–1871
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 4 1/2 x 4in. (11.4 x 10.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

47. Shakspeare

Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 4 3/8 x 3 3/8in. (11.1 x 8.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

48. Wm. Shakespeare

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 7 1/2in. (25.1 x 19.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

49. Shakspeare

Creator:: after Abraham Wivell, 1786–1899
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, stipple engraving and line engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 3/8 x 4 1/2in. (13.7 x 11.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

50. Shakspeare

Creator:: Abraham Wivell, 1786–1899
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, stipple engraving and line engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 3/8 x 4 1/2in. (13.7 x 11.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

51. William Shakespeare

Creator:: unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 7 1/4in. (25.4 x 18.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

52. Timon of Athens Before His Cave

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 7/16 inches (24.5 × 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

53. Shakespeare's Birthplace, Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 x 15 9/16 inches (25.2 x 39.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

54. David Garrick

Creator:: unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 7 1/2in. (25.4 x 19.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert

55. Shakspeare from an original Picture in the Possession of the late Duke of Chandois.

Creator:: after Sylvester Harding, 1745–1809
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 4 1/8 x 3 1/2in. (10.5 x 8.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. Lear Awakened by Cordelia

2. Sketch of Goths Entering Rome, from Shakespeare's Play, Titus Andronicus

3. Allegorical Scene

4. Sketch of a Battle Sceene, from Shakespeare's Play, Titus Andronicus

5. Scene from Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet

6. Study of Nude Figures in a Wooded Area

7. Study for a Relief with Romanesque Figures

8. Studies From a French MSS Bible Registry

9. Scene from Timon of Athens

10. Wooded Scene with a Couple Laying under a Tree, by a Stream

11. Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, with Satyrs, sleeping Cupid and a Pegasus in a Wooded Landscape

12. Five Vignettes of Scenes from Antiquity

13. Battle Scene

14. His Majesty George IVth

15. Interior of York Minster from the Nave Shewing the Screen of the Choir in its Present Situation

16. Untitled: The Persian and the Slave Merchants

17. Untitled: Skirmish for a Lady

18. Twelfth Night

19. Taming of the Shrew

20. Twelfth Night

21. Merry Wives of Windsor

22. Merry Wives of Windsor

23. Tempest

24. Taming of the Shrew

25. Tempest

26. Tempest

27. Merry Wives of Windsor

28. Cesar Passing the Rubicon

29. William Shakespeare

30. William Shakespeare

31. Tempest

32. Opera Reminiscences: Desdemona and Othello

33. Orlando and the Wrestler - "As You Like It"

34. Mr. Garrick in the Character of King Lear - "King Lear", Act III, Scene V

35. Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy

36. The Infant Shakspeare attended by Nature and the Passions

37. Pistol eating Fluellen's Leak - "Henry V"

38. Weird Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon (Thurlow, Pitt, and Dundas)

39. Taming of the Shrew. Katharine and Petruchio - The Modern Quixotte, or, What You Will

40. Shakespeare's Prophecy, the Last Act by One in the Tempest, or the Jack Daws in Borrowed Feathers (from: Caricature, vol. 3)

41. Ferdinand Riding the Waves

42. Shylock turn'd MacBeth...

43. Shakspeare

44. Shakspeare from the First Folio Edition

45. Shakspeare

46. William Shakespeare

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48. Wm. Shakespeare

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50. Shakspeare

51. William Shakespeare

52. Timon of Athens Before His Cave

53. Shakespeare's Birthplace, Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon

54. David Garrick

55. Shakspeare from an original Picture in the Possession of the late Duke of Chandois.